Week 4: DH, Activism, and Community Engagement
Response due Monday 2/10
Tuesday, February 11: Digital justice
- Reading
- Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text, vol. 36, no. 4 (137), Dec. 2018, pp. 57–79. PDF on Moodle
- Homework:
- Continue working on your html/css practice site, and gather content and ideas for the simple website assignment
- In class:
- Projects to view:
- Discussion of the reading
- Workshop time for Website assignment
Thursday, February 13: Crowd-sourcing
- Readings:
- Explore the Colored Conventions Project: about, Project principles, other selections
- Roopika Risam, “Introduction: The Postcolonial Digital Cultural Record”, from New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern UP, 2019) PDF on Moodle
- In class:
- Discussion of the readings (Johnson, Risam, Colored Conventions, etc.)
Resources and links
- Community engagement and crowd-sourced projects:
- Crowd-sourcing platforms
- Douglass Day project
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Setting up GitHub in VS Code: VS Code GitHub Integration docs
- Homework:
- Participate in Douglass Day: 12-3 PM in the Campus Center
- Find something interesting, screenshot it, and discuss it in your response for Monday
- NB: 2/14/25 Library of Congress’s By the People platform has crashed because of the event. If the platform is still down when you try, feel free to contribute to a Zooniverse project instead.
Simple Website Assignment due February 14
Submit your url to this moodle link by end-of-day Friday. Assignment instructions are available at that link and also on the course site here.